Airwave Service

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what organisations for which his Department is responsible  (a) use and  (b) are planning to use Airwave handsets.

Jim Fitzpatrick: The Department for Transport itself uses Airwave handsets. The following of the Department's executive agencies and sponsored non-departmental bodies are also users of Airwave handsets:
	Highways Agency
	Marine and Coastguard Agency
	British Transport Police.
	The following two executive agencies have been made 'approved sharers' of Airwave by Ofcom, the radio spectrum regulator, but do not currently use Airwave handsets:
	Government Car and Despatch Agency
	Vehicle and Operator Services Agency.